Zechmag Education

What is Magnesium?
After calcium, phosphorus and potassium, magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in cells. Roughly
one quarter is found in muscle tissue and three-fifths in bone; but
less than 1% of it is found in blood serum. It is an essential trans
membrane and intracellular modulator of cellular electrical activity. As
such, its deficiency in the body is nothing short of disastrous for
cell life. Magnesium is the single most important mineral for
facilitating smooth metabolism in the cells. Magnesium is necessary...

Magnesium Deficiency
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy - Magnesium deficiency is one of
the most common nutritional problems in the industrialized world today.
This deficiency is the result of agricultural practices, food
preparation techniques and dietary trends. Magnesium deficiency can
affect virtually every system of the body. Its absorption and
elimination depend on a very large number of variables, at least one of
which often goes awry, leading to a deficiency that can present itself
with many signs and symptoms. How much magnesium...

Introducing transdermal magnesium therapy
Transdermal magnesium, which involves absorption directly through
the skin, is inexpensive, safe and a do-it-yourself at home technique. Transdermal
application of magnesium is actually superior to oral supplements in
many ways and is the best practical way magnesium can be used as a
medicine besides by direct injection. Used transdermally...

All about magnesium oil
For topical use and maintaining the appropriate magnesium
levels, full strength magnesium oil sprayed directly on the skin will
provide the best benefits to the user. It is also the most efficient and
economical use. Magnesium oil is rubbed into the skin like a skin
cream. Within a minute, the magnesium gets absorbed and your skin no
longer feels oily. Once your skin absorbs the magnesium, it is carried
by the blood stream to areas within the body that are most in need. Magnesium oil is not actually an oil but...

Product Source and History The magnesium salt used for the ZECHMAG
products are sourced from the Zechstein Sea. This sea, 250 million years
ago, occupied the region of what is now the North Sea plus the lowland
areas of Britain and the north European plain through the Netherlands,
Germany and Poland. Through evaporation and earth movements, the water
in the sea disappeared and the salt was covered, creating the deep
underground deposits. That is why the magnesium chloride salt from this
source is so pure. It has never been in contact with the modern day
environment and has no impurities such as acid rain and heavy metals
found in surface seawater. The type of salt found here is called
BISCHOFITE. This is a saline evaporite, consisting of Magnesium Chloride
with the formula MgCI2-6H20. This very high quality type of magnesium
salt was discovered by Karl Gustav Bischof (1792-1870) a German
geologist and mineral chemist at the University of Bonn in Germany.

Some History on the use of Magnesium Chloride(excerpts from a article by Dr. Raul Vergini, MD)
Back in 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet,MD, was looking for
a solution to cleanse wounds, because he had found out that the
traditional antiseptic solutions actually mortified tissues and
facilitated the infection instead of preventing it.

He tested
several mineral solutions and discovered that a Magnesium Chloride
solution was not only harmless for tissues, but it had also a great
effect over leucocytic activity and phagocytosis; so it was perfect for
external wounds treatment.

Dr.Delbet performed a lot of "in
vitro" and "in vivo" experiments with this solution and he became aware
that it was good not only for external applications, but it was also a
powerful immuno-stimulant if taken by injections or even by mouth. He
called this effect "cytophilaxis". In some "in vivo" experiments it was
able to increase phagocytosis rate up to 300%.

Dr.Delbet
serendipitously discovered that this oral solution had also a tonic
effect on many people and so became aware that the Magnesium Chloride
had an effect on the whole organism. In a brief time, he received
communications of very good therapeutics effects of this "therapy" from
people that were taking Magnesium Chloride for its tonic properties and
who were suffering from various ailments. Prof.Delbet began to closely
study the subject and verified that the Magnesium Chloride solution was a
very good therapy for a long list of diseases.

In 1943 another
French doctor, A.Neveu,MD, used the Magnesium Chloride solution in a
case of diphteria to reduce the risks of anaphylactic reaction due to
the anti-diphteric serum that he was ready to administer. To his great
surprise, when the next day the laboratory results confirmed the
diagnosis of diphteria, the little girl was completely cured, before he
could use the serum.

He credited the immuno-stimulant activity to
the solution for this result, and he tested it in some other diphteric
patients. All the patients were cured in a very short time (24-48
hours), with no after-effects.

As Magnesium Chloride has no
direct effect on bacteria (i.e.it is not an antibiotic), Neveu thought
that its action was aspecific, immuno-enhancing, so it could be useful,
in the same manner, also against viral diseases. So he began to treat
some cases of poliomyelitis, and had the same wonderful results.

But
the indications for Magnesium Chloride therapy don't end here. In more
recent years other physicians have verified many of Delbet's and Neveu's
applications and have tried the therapy in other pathologies: asthmatic
acute attack, shock, tetanus (for these the solution is administered by
intravenous injection); herpes zoster, acute and chronic
conjunctivitis, optic neuritis, rheumatic diseases, many allergic
diseases, spring- asthenia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (even in cancer
it can be an useful adjuvant.

From a practical standpoint, please
remember that only Magnesium CHLORIDE has this "cytophilactic"
activity, and no other magnesium salt; probably it's a molecular, and
not a merely ionic, matter.

History on the Magnesium Chloride sourced from the underground Zechstein SeaIn the late 70”s, while drilling for natural
gas in the northern province of Groningen, Shell discovered the layer of
mineral bischofite.

In 1979, Shell and Billiton formed a
company. A mining operation was developed together with a processing
facility and production started in 1981

In 1994 the company was
sold and changed names with the new owners working on improving the
mining technology and getting a higher quality product.

In 2001
Calcium Chloride was added to the product mix and the improved mining
and processing systems improved the quality of the salts.

In 2004
the company became aware of the transdermal application possibility and
their efforts were quickly recognized by the health sector as very
beneficial for human supplementation and dealing with the magnesium
deficiency found in so many people.

Health professionals
throughout the world have become aware of the many advantages of
transdermal application of Magnesium Chloride and in 2007 Dr. Mark
Sircus, AC., O.M.D. wrote the book “TRANSDERMAL MAGNESIUM THERAPY,” that
is fast becoming a best seller.

Quick Facts on Zechstein Magnesium Chloride Deposits: * The formation of magnesium chloride from the ancient Zechstein Sea is over 250 million years old.
* The disappearance of the once active Zechstein Sea into an inactive
subterranean geological formation is due to a general marine regression
that accompanied the most severe extinction event in the history of
Earth – known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event. * Zechstein magnesium chloride deposits are mined approximately 2 kilometers beneath the surface of the earth.
* The Zechstein Sea was located in the Northern part of Europe, in the
European Permian Basin, extending from the eastern coast of England to
Northern Poland. * The Ancient Zechstein Sea has been kept
unadulterated from modern contaminants for the past 250 million years
due to deep subterranean isolation. * The term “Zechstein” is German for “tough stone,” yet also corresponds to a unit of time in the geologic timetable. * Zechstein magnesium salts are directly extracted from the earth by a process known as solution mining.